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Re: Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

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Post by Xiaoher-C »

This is fun, but I think the site needs a clearer distinction between “dead”, “declined”, and “still alive but culturally moved on”.

Tamagotchi is a good example: it’s no longer the late-90s phenomenon, but it’s definitely not dead.

A small status tag could help:

- shut down - zombie / technically alive - niche but active - spiritual successor exists

That would make the debates part of the site instead of just corrections in the comments.

Re: Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

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Post by anthk »

cookiengineer wrote: post #49

Pretty much every text is slop-generated. I like the idea, not what OP has done with it. Talking about ICQ with zero screenshots is like talking about Hamachi without talking about LAN parties and how games were played at the time. Pretty much all articles are just slop-text. Not even talking about alternatives or what has been done in the meantime. For example, ICQ led to AIM and Trillian, which led to pidgin/libpur…

AIM->GAIM from the libre community, then Pidgin/Libpurple, with NAIM, CenterIM, TMSNC and OFC AMSN.

This is what happens when people which didn't live the era try to write an article with LLM slop.

I remember loving Freetalk against Mcabber and now Profanity because it could autocomplete anything you entered, not just nicknames.

Re: Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

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Post by submeta »

Palm Pilot is mentioned, but not Amiga Computers? For me it defined an era. Warez, games, hacking in assembly and Aztec C compiler. Too bad I migrated to MS DOS (yet Turbo Pascal was great), as Macs were unaffordable in Germany.

Edit: A good list anyway. AOL dial tone and AOL CDs. Lol. Spent countless hours chatting to strangers on aol.

Re: Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things

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Post by ghaff »

Xiaoher-C wrote: post #91

This is fun, but I think the site needs a clearer distinction between “dead”, “declined”, and “still alive but culturally moved on”. Tamagotchi is a good example: it’s no longer the late-90s phenomenon, but it’s definitely not dead. A small status tag could help: - shut down - zombie / technically alive - niche but active - spiritual successor exists That would make the debates part of the site instead of just correc…

There are a lot of things that aren't dead exactly but are certainly at some small percentage of their peak popularity. Not Internet, but I like to give rollerblading/in-line skating as example. Yes, you may see someone doing it every few months but it used to be a pretty common activity at some point in the 90s. Bowling was very big at one point. There are still alleys but when was the last time you thought of being in a bowling league.
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